Captain Ross Smith

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Accession Number ART03179
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 76.2 x 63.8 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on canvas
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 1920
Conflict Period 1920-1929
First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Captain Sir Ross Macpherson Smith, KBE, MC and Bar, DFC and two Bars, AFC, MID, is perhaps best know for his flight from England to Australia with his brother Keith, and J M Bennett and W H Shiers in November 1919. He served with the Light Horse in Gallipoli and joined No1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps as an observer in 1916. As a pilot he shot down thirteen enemy machines, and the record of his individual exploits reveals courage and skill of a high order. He was killed in an aeroplane accident in 1922.

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